Highs and lows
This memory goes back to the early 1960s. I can’t remember the time of year; only the fact that I was wearing shorts … more
Mothers
Half of the blame
My story goes back to the mid-50s, when my mother and her sister rented a place in Miami Beach for six weeks in mid-Februar… more
In the shadow of the cane
I had a friend from college who was happy-go-lucky and free spirited. She moved to a different city after graduation but … more
Me and the girls
In 1962, when I was 14, I was at my girlfriend’s house playing a board game with her and her younger sister, and her mom was w… more
A team effort
This is my recollection of a very well-deserved spanking from my dad – under Mom’s supervision – when I was about 10 years … more
Smacked in the supermarket
This is a story about me getting a tanned arse for misbehaving in Tesco, a well-known supermarket in the UK, by my mum in th… more
The plastic paddle
When I wasn’t being paddled, I was very doted on. I was loved and well taken care of. Mom was too strict but her love w… more
The swimming pool
When I was growing up, after Mom divorced, we often visited my relatives in Minnesota. And often we stayed at my auntR… more
Spanked for talking back
This is my recollection of a good spanking my mom gave me – I consider it as the one of the most educational things ever in my … more
Sleeping naked
When I was about 14, I was sleeping in the living room on a pull-out bed (or ‘castro’). Although it was expre… more
My girlfriend’s mom
When I was 13, I had a girlfriend I really liked – but I didn’t like spending time at her house because we would alway… more
A spoonful of discipline
I was nine and was with two of my friends in the kitchen. We were making pancakes and I was showing off, being the youngest o… more
The sally rod
When our girls Una and Ciara were growing up, I was the primary disciplinarian. A basic punishment was a bare bottom over… more
Amie’s second smacking
In a previous story, I described how my twins Archie and Amie experienced their first spanking one night, at bedtime, at … more
Advertising’s bottom line
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One of the oldest and immutable principles of advertising has been to identify with your target au… more
The tree house
When my brother and I were children, we were lucky enough to have our dad build a tree house for us in an old beech which towe… more
The phone conversation
My next door neighbour Linda was a single woman who had two teenage daughters. She was very old-fashioned in outlook, la… more
Smacked back down
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Some ideas fail because they are too far ahead of their time. In the case of Safe Smack, you could say … more
Paddling in the Philippines
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NEW UPDATE Due to both its strict Asian parenting roots, and a high representation of traditional … more
The Rod: a sting in the tale
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Back in the day (well, the late 90s/early 00s to be a bit more precise), a rather eye-catching adver… more
From flowers to beetroot
I’ve enjoyed reading many of your accounts of childhood scrapes and punishments from other people, but I think m… more
Whackings – and afterwards
I went to a school in north London during the 1970s and the cane was still very much in use. I was unfortunate enough to be se… more
A dirty business (audio)
In this extract from her now discontinued blog The Spanking Mum, Louise discusses the pros and cons of spanking in the pr… more
Between the aisles
Editor’s note: This contribution was originally emailed to Maman in 2002.
I know that in this permissive day and … more
School and home
I was 16 years old, late in my sophomore year of high school. It was the early 1990s. I went to a school that paddled fairly r… more
‘Were you a naughty girl?’
The part of spanking stories that appeals to me the most is the embarrassment. I’m not sure why but as long a… more
A switching to remember
When I was in the third grade in the 1990s, my best friend was Cory, who lived about four blocks away from our house. One day… more
My mom’s spanking spoon
Considering it hurt so much at the time, you may think it odd that I remember my mom’s spanking spoon with such affe… more
A trip to the toilet
When I was nine, I got invited to a classmate’s birthday party. Debbie was a very popular girl and her parents were … more
‘Come quietly to be smacked’
My mother was definitely a believer in smacking naughty children. I was by no means the most unruly child of my cohort in s… more
A streak of bad luck
This story is true and written from personal experience. What I set down now is exactly how everything unfolded in 1973, … more
The Teacher
When my big brother and I were growing up in Wyoming during the 1980s, my mom spanked us pretty often. The tool she used for … more
A little bit of discipline
My birth mother died when I was just six years old, and for the next three years it was just me and Dad. Because we had both be… more
At my mother’s breast
I was brought up in the late 70s/early 80s, and in many ways my family life was something of a contradiction. Dad was basic… more
Spying in the bushes
One day, when I was 11 years old, I was playing at my friend Amanda’s house. when we heard agitated yelling from her … more
‘Danny got a spanking’
When I was around 12 or 13, we went on a family picnic at a local fish hatchery. My brother and his friends were walking on a n… more